Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... reason for choosing this day might have had a reference to her illustrious grandfather's birthday , which , there is good reason for thinking , would be celebrated as a festival in the family for generations . Still this choice may have ...
... reason for choosing this day might have had a reference to her illustrious grandfather's birthday , which , there is good reason for thinking , would be celebrated as a festival in the family for generations . Still this choice may have ...
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... reason he has to exult in the felicity of such obscurity ; for else this same vilest of travesties , Mr. Nahum's Lear , would consecrate his name to everlasting scorn . For himself , he belonged . to the age of Dryden rather than of ...
... reason he has to exult in the felicity of such obscurity ; for else this same vilest of travesties , Mr. Nahum's Lear , would consecrate his name to everlasting scorn . For himself , he belonged . to the age of Dryden rather than of ...
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... reasons for having a theatre at all . Men go thither for amusement . This is the paramount purpose , and even acknowledged merit or absolute superiority must give way to it . Does a man at Paris expect to see Molière reproduced in pro ...
... reasons for having a theatre at all . Men go thither for amusement . This is the paramount purpose , and even acknowledged merit or absolute superiority must give way to it . Does a man at Paris expect to see Molière reproduced in pro ...
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... reason he sold fewer . Two or three gentlemen of worship ' in the neighborhood might occasionally require a pair of gloves , but it is very doubtful whether any inhabitant of Stratford would ever call for so mere a luxury . The ...
... reason he sold fewer . Two or three gentlemen of worship ' in the neighborhood might occasionally require a pair of gloves , but it is very doubtful whether any inhabitant of Stratford would ever call for so mere a luxury . The ...
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... reason of any precontract , & c . , but that Willm . Shagspere , one thone ptie , ' [ on the one party , ] and Anne Hathwey of Stratford , in the diocess of Worcester , maiden , may lawfully solemnize matrimony together ; and in the ...
... reason of any precontract , & c . , but that Willm . Shagspere , one thone ptie , ' [ on the one party , ] and Anne Hathwey of Stratford , in the diocess of Worcester , maiden , may lawfully solemnize matrimony together ; and in the ...
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